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Military service
Service number:
R/221219
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
166 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
August 27, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. 9. Coll. grave 14.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
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Memorial
Cross made of aircraft remains commemorates site of crash. -
Grave Marker
Excerpt of story and photos from Airwar Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com.<P> F/S Schafer of Kingsville, Ontario, was air gunner on Lancaster III LM694 serving in 166 (RAF) Squadron and was on Gardening (Mining) mission to Danzig Bay. When flying over the Jylland peninsula on the return flight LM694 was attacked by a German night fighter and crashed at 03:30 hours at Aastruplund northwest of Horsens 27 August 1944 with the loss of all onboard. The wreckage was spread over an area of 1000 x 500 metres. The remains of the crew were found in the general area. German soldiers from the Wehrmacht barracks in Brædstrup arrived under command of Hauptfeldwebel Hein and sealed off the area in search for survivors On 30/8 1944 they were buried in Gl. Rye cemetery by members of the Wehrmacht The Canadian crew members were: F/S Schafer, F/O James B. Russell and F/S John E. Fitzgerald. -
Cemetery
Photo of graves of crew members and memorial. -
Newspaper clipping
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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